Lucedale animal shelter ends gas chamber practice

Injections used on animals instead

10:03 PM,
Apr. 7, 2013

Written by

Emily Lane
elane@jackson.gannett.com

After a failed push by animal advocates to ban the practice statewide, the only known shelter in Mississippi to euthanize animals using a gas chamber decided last week to stop using the antiquated method.

The Lucedale Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday to instead perform euthanasia by injection, known as EBI, at the city's animal shelter rather than using a carbon monoxide chamber.

Mississippi, which is surrounded on all sides by states that already have outlawed gas chambers as a form of euthanasia, is now among the majority of states that no longer use the practice. ...